And the GCC Pitch Challenge Winners are… Last week Sirdab Lab hosted Startup MENA’s GCC Pitch Challenge, and the experience was wonderful. Seeing startup founders experiencing one epiphany after another as they rotated between mentors is exciting, because it means that they’ll be able to make better decisions, find more realistic business models,…
DetailsKuwait’s Startup Success Story, and Our Upcoming Events As you may have probably heard, Talabat, our beloved food-ordering Kuwaiti startup, has recently been acquired by Rocket Internet for 150 million Euros. That’s a major accomplishment for a regional startup, and one we hope will inspire others to pursue and persist with their own startups. Having…
DetailsOpen This Post for Events not to be Missed Hope you enjoyed the lovely weather during the weekend (I don’t know where today’s dusty weather came from!). We have a few exciting events happening next week: We’re launching a new event series at Sirdab called Mystery Problem-Solving. It’s an intellectual exercise to pick each others’…
DetailsStartup Insights and Exciting Events The past week was packed with insights from workshops I attended and people I talked to in Sirdab Lab. Value was added and my understanding was deepened on all things regarding the start-up scene. I‘ll try to simplify what was cemented in my thoughts and share it with you guys…
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